is popping your knuckles bad and what can damage be?

Question

my fingers hurt from playing instruments and computer and popping them makes em feel better. any advice if its not good for my hands?

Answer 1

3: Cracking your knuckles will cause arthritis in later life.


__ True ___ False ____ Maybe


ANSWER: False. Depending on your point of view, knuckle-popping sounds disgusting or cool. There is no evidence that cracking your knuckles inflames the joints and leads to arthritis. The cracking causes the bones to pull apart, forming a gas bubble and breaking the adhesive seal in the joint. Crack! About a quarter of the people in the U.S. crack their knuckles and might begin to lose their grip a little. Constant cracking can weaken the fingers.

Answer 2

Popping your knuckles is good in moderation. It does release air trapped in the joints, the pain you feel is actually pressure from that gas.

Sometimes having joints pop is something you cannot control, my knees will pop extremely loudly when I bend into a squatting position... that is not dangerous.

What you should be aware of is cracking your knuckles too much, as it can cause cartilage damage, if you crack your knuckles only when they hurt this is not much of an issue. Also if you start to feel a crunch in your joints as you pop them see a doctor to be on the safe side.

Don't give up playing your intruments though!

Answer 3

Many doctors feel that the popping sound may be caused by displacing air around the joint and it has never been shown to cause damage at any time...not now and not later in life. Knuckle cracking is not associated with arthritis.

Answer 4

I do it all the time. Yeah, I heard it can give you arthritis and all, but, there a people out there who have arthritis and they never cracked their knuckles. So, what does that tell you? Either way, we will eventually all get arthritis and have to live through it; some worse then others. Thank God there are Excedrins and Advils and such that can help eliminate or help ease the pain of having to go through that. There are even creams out there for that.

Answer 5

i pop my knuckles sometimes but very rarely, about 8 years ago a friend of mine popped her knuckles and air got trapped inside and made her whole arm swell up and she had to have surgery and all this. i guess when you pop your knuckles it is forcing some type of air out of them carbon dioxide i think, and getting oxygen in them is bad...i am not 100% sure on that but, i know she was in the hospital for a week due to popping her knuckles

Answer 6

everybody pay attention UP: No! the only undesirable factor it does it weaken your joints VERY VERY fairly. in fact, a scientist who studied knuckles mentioned that human beings who crack there knuckles have oftentimes greater healthy knuckles, as a results of fact doing it extremely is form of a paintings out to your joints, as a results of fact it provides a reason to flow them. yet, nonetheless, there isn't any information that it motives arthritis. medical doctors are nonetheless unsure if knuckle cracking is the reason at the back of many joint circumstances or whether it extremely is a joint concern itself that facilitates specific human beings to crack there knuckles and, if so, the different joint circumstances that are mentioned to be brought about by utilising cracking knuckles could desire to truly be brought about by utilising the priority which permits you to crack them. So till greater word it has no longer proved

Answer 7

I do the same thing. I think it isn't good though.

Make sure you drink enough water during the day because I know my knuckles hurt when I haven't had enough water. Or maybe try getting one of those magnet braceletes.

I hope I helped and good luck!

Answer 8

NO damage until you annoy someone seated near by and they break your fingers with your trumpet.

Answer 9

it will NOT give you arthritis the only damage i could think of is hurting your ears if can do it really loud

Answer 10

It's bad and it'll give you arthritis.